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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is in tryouts this week after a long winter conditioning season. The sport is not school-funded so we have a lot of expectations for money we pay and hours we volunteer. We had one round for the winter, and another coming up this spring.

After tryouts each kid meets with the coach individually to find out why they made or didn’t make the team. The coach tells the kids who get cut what needs to improve to make the team next year, and how they can make those improvements over the spring, summer and fall. Other parents tell me this relates to workout routines, as well as learning the craft by attending the coach’s summer camp or other camps.

How likely is it that a kid actually makes a team the next year after being cut? Will the coaches really look at my kid? Won’t the other kids actually on the team jump way ahead of mine? And for camp, could my kid attend a camp near where we summer, or is it be essential to get time with the high school coach learning what he wants.

My kid has never really done sports beyond rec before so I don’t know what to think. When I was young coaches would never keep a kid they cut the year prior, but they also never devoted a 15-minute individual meeting to tell you if you made the team and what you can do to improve.[/quote]

Really depends on the sport.  For basketball, I guess some schools could be really competitive and not have a freshman team, so it would be tough for freshmen to make JV.  Those freshmen could maybe play AAU and by dint of hard work, hitting the weight room and growing, end up making JV as a sophomore.  However, in my experience, at competitive schools the coaches know before tryouts who they are going to have on the team, and they will know the freshmen who will wind up playing JV before tryouts begin -- they will have seen them play in middle school or they will have played summer league.

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